Decrease in Health-Related Quality of Life and Post-COVID-19 Syndrome in Health Care Workers After SARS-CoV-2 Infection: A Cohort Study.

Objectives: The aim of this study is to assess the persistence of symptoms, the prevalence of post-COVID-19 syndrome, and the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) among health care workers (HCWs) 6 months after severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection.

Methods: A prospective cohort study was conducted. All HCWs with confirmed COVID-19 from January to June 2021 were invited to participate.

Presenteeism among health care workers: literature review.

Presenteeism is an occupational and psychosocial phenomenon with negative impact on the work environment. In addition to causing losses in productivity losses, it also has implications for the state of health of workers. Therefore, presenteeism is likely to become a serious public health problem.

Night shift work, short sleep and obesity.

Background: Obesity is associated with increased general mortality and comorbidities, it is multifactorial and some evidence has shown that sleep duration and shift work may be implicated in its pathogenesis.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between shift work, quality of life and obesity among healthcare workers of a Brazilian University Hospital.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was performed from April 2013 to December 2014 with 200 workers of a University Hospital.

Sarcopenia and Type 2 diabetes mellitus as predictors of 2-year mortality after hospital discharge in a cohort of hospitalized older adults.

Introduction: Sarcopenia has been discussed as a possible predictor of mortality in the older people, but there are few studies evaluating the relationship between mortality and sarcopenia in the population of patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D), especially after hospital discharge.

Objective: To evaluate whether coexistence of sarcopenia and T2D predicts mortality after two years of hospital discharge in older patients compared to a control group without diabetes.

Methodology: A prospective study that included patients hospitalized between July 2015 and December 2017.

Impact of water renewal on the residual effect of larvicides in the control of Aedes aegypti.

This study was carried out to evaluate the residual effect of three larvicides under laboratory conditions for 100 days in Aedes aegypti. The larval mortality rate was measured without water renewal or with daily water renewal (80%). With temephos, there was 100% mortality in both groups until the 70th day.

[Efficacy of fish as predators of Aedes aegypti larvae, under laboratory conditions].

Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of fish as predators of the Aedes aegypti larvae in laboratory conditions.

Methods: The male and female of five different fish were included in the experiment. The tests to measure their consumption ability lasted five weeks for each species.